Williams are supportive of Marussia`s attempts to return to the Formula One grid and would have agreed to them starting the season with last year`s car, deputy principal Claire Williams said on Wednesday.

French driver Romain Grosjean thinks that it's time for Jenson Button to move aside and allow fresh blood into Formula One. The Lotus driver was once rumoured to partner Fernando Alonso at McLaren, at the expense of Button and Kevin Magnussen.

Formula One`s midfield strugglers believe they may have found a solution to their current cash crisis and hope Bernie Ecclestone can endorse and support their plans before next weekend`s Brazilian Grand Prix.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone dismissed the threat of a U.S. Grand Prix boycott on Saturday after cash-strapped smaller teams suggested they could take drastic action to push their demands for more money.

Formula One`s commercial supremo said he wanted to tear up all team contracts and rewrite the rules as talk of race boycotts and financial failure swept the U.S. Grand Bernie Ecclestone Prix paddock on Saturday.